lorzë
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Albanian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unclear. Used in a phrase flas si lorza (“to chat like a parrot”). A suffixal diminutive of an unattested *lori (“parrot lori, one of the subfamily Lorinae, now usually tribe Loriini”).[1]
Noun[edit]
lorzë f (plural lorzë, definite lorza, definite plural lorzat)
References[edit]
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “lorzë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 231
Further reading[edit]
- “lorëz”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006